《突厥汗国与隋唐关系史研究》是一部研究6-7世纪北方游牧的突厥汗国与同时期的内地农业政权的政治关系的著作。突厥汗国的兴起，改变了欧亚内陆地区的政治格局，也深刻影响了中国历史的发展进程。作者通过对卷帙浩繁的汉文史料的考辨，对突厥汗国与隋唐关系史上聚讼不已或未及引起重视的问题，如突厥汗国的征服与分裂，隋朝对突厥汗国的政策，东突厥汗国对唐朝初年平定北方割据势力的影响与制约，唐朝对东突厥降部的安置，西突厥汗国对唐朝初年在西域活动的决定性影响等，提出了一系列独到的见解，并在此基础上梳理出6—7世纪突厥汗国与内地政权交往的历史线索，将作为国际显学的突厥史研究向前推进了一步，为认识南北朝后期至唐朝初年中国历史的变迁提供了新的思路。

亚·伊·弗多文、王加兴主编的《二十世纪的俄罗斯族人/俄罗斯社会与文化译丛》系苏联-俄罗斯现代史专著，作者为莫斯科大学历史系教授。他运用丰富的解密档案文献。以作为主体民族的俄罗斯族人在20世纪历史进程中的荣辱沉浮为关注焦点，剖析苏俄民族政策与实践的演进过程和利弊得失，并据此判定：苏联民族政策的种种弊端，促成了国民特別是俄罗斬民族凝聚力的曰渐消弭、民族分离势力的滋生与膨胀。是最终导致苏联解体的重要因素之一。
全书共六章。第一章主要论述20世纪20—30年代中期由具有虚无主义色彩的民族政策向实用的爱国主义政策的转变。苏联早期民族政策将俄罗斯民族置于与其他人民和民族不平等的地位；世界革命的低潮与纳粹德国的兴起迫使苏联民族政策转向，对俄罗斯民族及其历史作用的评价发生变化，“憎俄情结”始有弱化。
第二章主要论述因战时之需，民族主义、爱国主义乃至东正教均作为抵抗外部威胁的重要手段而受到重视。俄罗斯民族因承担起抵御反侮的重任而由昔日的“压迫民族”转而被誉为“伟大民族”、诸民族之“兄长”；“苏联人民历史共同体”理论的提出，标志着民族虚无主义被民族爱国主义所取代。
第三章主要论述自赫鲁晓夫之后民族政策中的去斯大林化，人为加速民族融合的“新历史共同体”理论与民族政策和实践中的矛盾，以及由此滋生的各类民族运动和民族冲突。
第四章主要论述苏联解体过程中种种民族主义的作用。
第五章主要论述苏联解体和俄罗斯重建与民族政策的关系。
结语一章，论述各种有关构建俄罗斯民族国家体制的方案和重建统一国家国民理念的设想。
本书可为读者了解苏俄历史和民族问题提供丰富的信息和广阔、清晰的视野。书中披露大缮鲜为人知的史料，读来令人豁然；更兼文笔晓畅、生动，学术与趣味交融其间，颇具可读性。

《俄罗斯文明的起源与意义》一书是俄罗斯学术界首次对俄罗斯现代文明的特点进行多方面的系统研究。该书不仅确立了俄罗斯现代文明这一概念，揭示出自彼得大帝改革就开始呈现的稳定性，而且阐述了俄罗斯现代文明有别于古今其他文明的重要特征。书中详细分析了俄罗斯现代文明的特点：自然地理特征、地缘政治意义、对生命意义的认识、交际特点、男女关系特点、俄罗斯的性革命、城市文化等。
本书对彼得改革以来的俄国做出了全新阐释，指出俄罗斯现代文明发端于彼得大帝的改革，但彼得改革并不是俄国西欧主义发展之路的开端。整个18世纪是俄罗斯现代文明初步形成阶段，到19世纪初叶俄罗斯现代文明最终确立。作者认为，俄罗斯历史上所发生的社会、经济和政治动荡对深层次的文明结构并未产生实质性的影响，俄罗斯文明结构（国民性格和精神理念，生活和思维方式的基本特征）在总体上大致保持住了“不同于其他文明的几乎所有的特点”。
本书涉及的问题覆盖面极为广泛，直接或间接涉及到现当代俄罗斯现实的热门话题。对想要深入了解俄罗斯、关注俄罗斯命运的中国读者具有重要参考价值。

In the summer of 1900, bands of peasant youths from the villages of north China streamed into Beijing to besiege the foreign legations, attracting the attention of the entire world. Joseph Esherick reconstructs the early history of the Boxers, challenging the traditional view that they grew from earlier anti-dynastic sects, and stressing instead the impact of social ecology and popular culture.

In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society. This book is an ambitious attempt to offer both a method and a framework for analyzing Chinese social history in the state-making era.The author constructs a prismatic view of village-level society that shows how marketing, kinship, water control, temple patronage, and other structures of human interaction overlapped to form what he calls the cultural nexus of power in local society. The author's concept of the cultural nexus and his tracing of how it was altered enables us for the first time to grapple with change at the village level in all its complexity.The author asserts that the growth of the state transformed and delegitimized the traditional cultural nexus during the Republican era, particularly in the realm of village leadership and finances. Thus, the expansion of state power was ultimately and paradoxically responsible for the revolution in China as it eroded the foundations of village life, leaving nothing in its place.The problems of state-making in China were different from those of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe; the Chinese experience heralds the process that would become increasingly common in the emergent states of the developing world under the very different circumstances of the twentieth century.

Midway through the reign of Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, mass hysteria broke out. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land clipping off the ends of men's queues (braids worn by royal decree) and chanting magical incantations over them in order to steal the souls of their owners. In this book, Kuhn chronicles this epidemic of fear and the official prosecution of soulstealers that ensued, so opening up a window on 18th-century China. The book raises questions not just about China, but also about past human behaviour in general and it demonstates how in any society, a provincial panic can become a national witch-hunt.

Chinese workers in the third century b.c. created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century a.d., Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, China exported more than a hundred million pieces of porcelain to the West. As these examples show, the Chinese throughout history have produced works of art in astonishing quantities - and have done so without sacrificing quality, affordability, or speed of manufacture. How have they managed this? Lothar Ledderose takes us on a remarkable tour of Chinese art and culture to explain how artists used complex systems of mass production to assemble extraordinary objects from standardized parts or modules. As he reveals, these systems have deep roots in Chinese thought - in the idea that the universe consists of ten thousand categories of things, for example - and reflect characteristically Chinese modes of social organization. Ledderose begins with the modular system par excellence: Chinese script, an ancient system of fifty thousand characters produced from a repertoire of only about two hundred components. He shows how Chinese artists used related modular systems to create ritual bronzes, to produce the First Emperor's terracotta army, and to develop the world's first printing systems. He explores the dazzling variety of lacquerware and porcelain that the West found so seductive, and examines how works as diverse as imperial palaces and paintings of hell relied on elegant variation of standardized components. Ledderose explains that Chinese artists, unlike their Western counterparts, did not seek to reproduce individual objects of nature faithfully, but sought instead to mimic nature's ability to produce limitless numbers of objects. He shows as well how modular patterns of thought run through Chinese ideas about personal freedom, China's culture of bureaucracy, Chinese religion, and even the organization of Chinese restaurants. Originally presented as a series of Mellon lectures at the National Gallery of Art, "Ten Thousand Things" combines keen aesthetic and cultural insights with a rich variety of illustrations to make a profound new statement about Chinese art and society.

Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rogaski focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chinese concept, weisheng—which has been rendered into English as "hygiene," "sanitary," "health," or "public health"—as it emerged in the complex treaty-port environment of Tianjin. Before the late nineteenth century, weisheng was associated with diverse regimens of diet, meditation, and self-medication. Hygienic Modernity reveals how meanings of weisheng, with the arrival of violent imperialism, shifted from Chinese cosmology to encompass such ideas as national sovereignty, laboratory knowledge, the cleanliness of bodies, and the fitness of races: categories in which the Chinese were often deemed lacking by foreign observers and Chinese elites alike.

This book charts the vicissitudes of a rural community of papermakers in Sichuan. The process of transforming bamboo into paper involves production-related and social skills, as well as the everyday skills that allowed these papermakers to survive in an era of tumultuous change. The Chinese revolution - understood as a series of interconnected political, social, and technological transformations - was, Jacob Eyferth argues, as much about the redistribution of skill, knowledge, and technical control as it was about the redistribution of land and political power. The larger context for this study is the 'rural-urban divide': the institutional, social, and economic cleavages that separate rural people from urbanites. This book traces the changes in the distribution of knowledge that led to a massive transfer of technical control from villages to cities, from primary producers to managerial elites, and from women to men. It asks how a vision of rural people as unskilled has affected their place in the body politic and contributed to their disenfranchisement. By viewing skill as a contested resource, subject to distribution struggles, it addresses the issue of how revolution, state-making, and marketization have changed rural China.

In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values.
It is in this context that historian Andrea S. Goldman harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history. Her meticulous yet playful account takes up the multiplicity of opera types that proliferated at the time, exploring them as contested sites through which the Qing court and commercial playhouses negotiated influence and control over the social and moral order. Opera performance blurred lines between public and private life, and offered a stage on which to act out gender and class transgressions. This work illuminates how the state and various urban constituencies manipulated opera to their own ends, and sheds light on empire-wide transformations underway at the time.

Recent events—from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations around the globe—vividly demonstrate that one cannot understand the modern Chinese world without attending closely to the question of religion. The Religious Question in Modern China highlights parallels and contrasts between historical events, political regimes, and cultural movements to explore how religion has challenged and responded to secular Chinese modernity, from 1898 to the present.
 
Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer piece together the puzzle of religion in China not by looking separately at different religions in different contexts, but by writing a unified story of how religion has shaped, and in turn been shaped by, modern Chinese society. From Chinese medicine and the martial arts to communal temple cults and revivalist redemptive societies, the authors demonstrate that from the nineteenth century onward, as the Chinese state shifted, the religious landscape consistently resurfaced in a bewildering variety of old and new forms. The Religious Question in Modern China integrates historical, anthropological, and sociological perspectives in a comprehensive overview of China’s religious history that is certain to become an indispensible reference for specialists and students alike.

本书是华东师范大学海外中国学研究中心主任朱政惠教授承担的国家课题成果，前后历时十余年完成。本书以丰富翔实的史料，以历史学为主线，第一次系统梳理了美国中国学二百年来的发展历程，阐述了早期中国学向现代中国学演变的内在逻辑，以及当下中国学研究在研究思路与研究方法上的发展态势，清晰呈现了一个丰富立体的美国中国学发展史轨迹，并由此展开了对美国中国学研究的整体反思，填补了国内海外汉学研究的空白。

本书是南宋食盐政府专卖制度的研究著作，从不同角度探究了南宋盐业的地理分布特点、兴盛与衰敝的过程、政府法令的推动与成败、私盐的产生机理与防治等问题。本书析论周密，使宋代盐业史研究更臻完备而全面，当于宋史、中国古代社会史及中国古代经济史研究有重要贡献。

本书是施特劳斯学述的标志性著作。施特劳斯的"政治哲学"依托苏格拉底的哲学经历，以整个西方思想史为织体，所展开的是西方哲学的整个古典传统。施特劳斯学述把源源不断的新生学子引向了柏拉图式的政治哲学传统，热爱哲学的青年最终在古典大书中安居乐业。一旦古典学问成了一国学术的丰厚土壤，成为显学的显然并非施特劳斯学述，而是古典学问本身。这是更重要的事情，也是出版本书的宗旨所在。正如编者所言："在施特劳斯所展开的政治哲学引领下，一旦年轻学子的向学热情经受过古典学问的浸润，必将逐渐懂得人类政治生活的严峻性和复杂性，不再头脑简单地以种种传媒观念来衍化哲学……"。本书涉及政治哲学与历史，色诺芬的《希耶罗》，法拉比解读柏拉图的《法义》，迈蒙尼德论政治科学，霍布斯政治哲学的基础以及洛克的自然法学说等诸多主题。

18世纪的启蒙运动标志着现代的开端，于其时，对科学方法、理性以及进步的信仰支配了整个西方世界。进入20世纪，启蒙运动则受到了苛刻地批评，批评者称其怀有明显的、过分简单的乐观主义。现代史学巨擘彼得·盖伊追根溯源，对启蒙运动的成就给出令人信服的解释。
盖伊先后花费了六七年时间撰写《启蒙时代》，运用极其丰富的史料，呈现了整个启蒙运动的面貌。在上卷《现代异教精神的兴起》中，盖伊首先分析了启蒙思想家如何利用古代异教思想家作为资源，以摆脱自身所继承的基督教文化遗产。在盖伊生动、灵巧地叙事下，一卷极其细密的启蒙思想纹理图徐徐展开，伏尔泰、狄德罗、孟德斯鸠、卢梭等一大批启蒙哲人活跃其上。他们统一在一个共同的伟大纲领之下，同自身所处的文化环境又战又和。令人尊崇的古代、可憎的基督教以及新近浮现的现代，这三者之间紧张的互动，既决定了启蒙哲人在身份认同上的最大危机，也决定了危机的解决方式。

《自由的科学》是彼得·盖伊巨著《启蒙时代》的第二卷，与第一卷《现代异教精神的兴起》一起，构成了盖伊对启蒙运动的完整阐释。《现代异教精神的兴起》中分析了启蒙哲人对基督教世界的反叛以及对古典异教思想的召唤，探讨了他们的教育背景。本卷将分析启蒙哲人所处的环境，那使启蒙哲学变得有的放矢、大势所趋的经济和文化变迁；考察作家和艺术家的地位；阐明启蒙哲人的纲领，即他们对于进步、科学、艺术、社会和政治的看法。
1．如果说帝国的历史是一部人类苦难史，那么科学的历史便是一部人类的伟大与幸福史。在18世纪，有教养的欧洲人唤醒了一种新的生命意识。他们普遍感受到一种驾驭自然和人类事务的力量感：人们终于开始运用批判性才智来审视周而复始的瘟疫、饥荒、朝不保夕的生活和夭亡、毁灭性的战争与脆弱的和平。在追求现代性的大势所趋中，牛顿成为时代偶像，科学被缔造为新的神话，进步、民主、平等、人道等观念日渐深入人心。在这个人类充满自信的时代，启蒙哲人的诉求和期望终于有了实质性意义，他们对于科学、艺术、社会和政治的看法，最终促成了现代世界的大转型。无论是好的，还是坏的，一场人类的心灵革命，就此起航。
2．权威呈现整个启蒙运动的面貌。盖伊先后花费了六七年时间撰写《启蒙时代》，运用极其丰富的史料，论述具体而微，表达行云流水。
3．译文精湛，译者认真考究，语言精确流畅，充分再现盖伊生花妙笔。

★正确解读《史记》就是正确解读中国历史，读懂《史记》从本书开始。
★“汉学诺贝尔”儒莲奖得主、京都学派史学泰斗宫崎市定研读《史记》六十年经验结晶，借大师之眼读懂《史记》。
★问世38年长销不坠，文库本加印20次，畅销10余万册，日本人靠它读懂《史记》。
★仅有的分体例全面解读《史记》的著作，本纪、世家、表、书、列传逐一解读，阅读《史记》的入门书。
★清华大学教授何兆武、复旦大学教授钱文忠、南京大学教授张学锋联袂推荐。
司马迁撰写的《史记》是中国第一部正史，它生动地描绘了古代中国的社会与人。《史记》诞生后，中国几乎没有能够超过它的史书，评论《史记》与评论中国的整个历史有着同等地位的价值。《史记》不仅在中国影响深远，它在日本也随着遣唐使传入后广为流传。经过六十年的钻研，宫崎市定从《史记》的成书到结构全面解读这部伟大的名著，著成这部绝佳的《史记》入门经典。

齐格蒙·鲍曼是本世纪后半叶欧洲的一位重要的社会学家。本书是他的代表作。
本书中，“现代性”与“后现代性”表达了知识分子角色从立法者到阐释者的截然不同的两种境遇，以及相应的截然不同的两种策略。本书旨在揭示现代型世界观及现代性知识分子策略所产生的历史条件，揭示出在何种社会条件下这种世界观及其策略遭到挑战，并且部分地为另一种被称作为后现代型世界观及其策略所取代。

陈宏谋是清代中期上层官僚的代表，作者通过对他的解读让我们全面了解那个时期官员对自己、对事业和社会的认识。作者从为官到做人，从经世到治家诸多方面剖析了陈宏谋的思想与政治生涯。本书通过人物史写社会史，是了解18世纪官僚政治思想的重要著作。

《〈韩非子〉的成书及其文学研究》是在作者马世年的博士论文基础上改编而成的，书中包括了：韩非生平事迹考辨、《韩非子》的编集与版本研究、《韩非子》文学思想新论、《韩非子》寓言研究、《韩非子》文体分类研究等七章内容。《〈韩非子〉的成书及其文学研究》适合从事相关研究工作的人员参考阅读。